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Whatever Susan Kare knew about vector graphics, that's not why the icons were pixelated. It was because she had only two colors to work with, black and white,
by Stratoscope 2y ago
Whatever Susan Kare knew about vector graphics, that's not why the icons were pixelated.
It was because she had only two colors to work with, black and white, and only two icon sizes, 16x16 and 32x32.
Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson only got 32x32 B&W icons for their own portraits:
https://www.folklore.org/Steve,_Icon.html https://www.folklore.org/Steve,_Icon.html
> Icons were only 32 by 32 black or white pixels, 1024 dots in total
Susan posted more examples here:
https://www.behance.net/gallery/81132387/Macintosh-icons https://www.behance.net/gallery/81132387/Macintosh-icons
- michaeljsmith 2y ago(I think that was the joke)
- Stratoscope 2y agoConsider me duly and properly whooshed! It was only when I later re-read the comment I replied to, with the part about Bill Atkinson not knowing about the border-radius feature in CSS, that I realized what was going on. At least I hope my note about the pixelated icons may have been of interest to a few. Thanks for keeping me on my toes!